ebookland #339 - Isn't it bold?
#339 - Isn't it bold?
“I want to hire you.”
“Hire!?” X3
Hearing Zunzun say this suddenly, Alicia and the others exchanged glances, not knowing his reasons for saying so.
The next morning, bright and early.
Their mission was already over. No matter what, the work of reconstruction wouldn't fall to Zunzun and the others. Just as they were about to leave, Alicia and the others were suddenly asked to stay.
“Is it okay? Alicia, you guys are adventurers, you should accept mission requests. Or are you saying that now that you've become heroes, you disdain accepting missions from others?”
“No, no, no, that's not it!”
“On the contrary, we're very happy to have a designated request. For fledgling novice adventurers, this is a very rare opportunity, and it has nothing to do with the title of hero.”
The three hurriedly denied it.
They were, after all, novice adventurers who had been inexplicably crowned with the title of hero, so they were very aware of their own limitations, but precisely because of this—
“It's hard to imagine Zunzun would commission us.”
Alicia was a little strange.
They knew Zunzun and the others' strength, and even so, to commission the three of them, they didn't know what they would be facing. Most importantly, they didn't know if they could help.
“There's absolutely no need to worry about that.”
Zunzun said with a smile: “Your strength has already been recognized by me, and what's most important on the battlefield isn't strength, but following orders. On this point, all three of you have done very well.”
His words were encouraging.
After all, it was the truth. Even if Alicia wasn't a true hero, their growth rate was ridiculously fast. Back in the A-rank dungeon, they were just naive newbies, but in just over a month, they had already grown to this point.
Perhaps, given them a little more time, they might become true heroes.
“To be honest, I don't really agree.”
“Teacher!” X3
Hearing the elven beauty say this, Alicia and the others were a little excited. They had considerable respect for the elven beauty, who could be said to be their mentor in leading them to grow. Since she was their mentor, being denied naturally made them unhappy.
“However.”
She suddenly changed her tone and said: “You can't just be lazy like this. Since you have the belief of wanting to become stronger, then you should go and fight strong enemies to constantly hone yourselves, just like your skills.”
“Teacher!” X3
The three were deeply moved.
The elven beauty secretly stuck her tongue out at Zunzun. She had indeed adopted the posture of a teacher just now, but honestly, it felt strangely awkward. The current playful and proud her was a little cuter.
“And with the Staff of Salvation, you should barely count as half a combatant, right?”
“Teacher!?” X3
The three shouted again, obviously not expecting that they only counted as half a combatant, and that was even with the Staff of Salvation.
“What about Yosuke?”
“I don't mind. Zunzun must have his own considerations for saying so, and isn't it better to have more people for what we need to do?”
Isaki Yosuke agreed quickly.
Since it required mutual collision between energies, that meant the more power, the better, only in this way could the probability of breaking through space be increased.
“I, I don't have any objections either.”
“Okay, then let's have a brief meeting.”
“Wa-wait! I haven't said anything cool yet, let me say something too!”
Mabel tugged on Zunzun's arm, shaking it back and forth, as if feeling wronged for being neglected. Clearly, she would undoubtedly be the main force in the upcoming battle.
“This, this is bad…”
“How should I put it, I already have a very uneasy premonition.”
Reika and Edgar, who had been provoked, realized that they seemed to have inadvertently boarded a pirate ship, and they were even more convinced after seeing Zunzun's wicked smile.
“Can we quit now?”
“No.”
“I knew it!”
“Damn it, we've been tricked!”
The two, rejected by Zunzun, looked terrible. Alicia said, unable to bear it, “You two, since Zunzun and the teacher need help, you should try your best to help, how can you only think about running away?”
“You… have you really understood the situation?”
“It's not whether we want to help or not, but whether we can help.”
“Eh eh, what do you mean?”
Her cute and clueless appearance showed that she hadn't reacted.
Then Zunzun revealed their purpose, causing the three to stare blankly at each other.
Just as the elven beauty had said, at first, they didn't really want the three to come along, after all, the opponents they would be facing next were more troublesome than these monsters… no, they were enhanced versions of mythical monsters.
“We're fighting the Demon Flame Dragon, really?”
“Let me correct you, it's not the Demon Flame Dragon, but the enhanced version of the Demon Flame Dragon.”
“Isn't that even harder!?”
Reika opened her mouth wide.
This was like 'This is forward, backward, left, right, this is attack, jump, okay, please go defeat Erlang Shen'. No, considering they had learned skills, they had at most learned three stances of the staff.
“It's okay, it's okay, you won't die.”
“It's not a matter of dying or not…”
Zunzun and the elven beauty kept saying that this was a very rare opportunity to increase their experience in fighting strong opponents, but this level of battle was still very difficult for them.
“So, do you want to quit?”
“Well…”
Alicia and the three looked at each other, shaking their heads in unison and speaking.
“It's impossible to quit, right?”
“I also want to see how strong the Demon Flame Dragon is.”
“Since you need help, I can't sit idly by.”
The three said no with their mouths, but their bodies were actually very honest, with different reasons but the same purpose.
“That's good then.”
“Zunzun, you… you really are a devil.”
“I saw it when we were in the dungeon.”
“Yes, you taught us so harshly.”
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In Alicia and the others' eyes, Zunzun seemed to have become a devil instructor, clearly for their own good, only scolding them a few times in the dungeon.
Reika asked curiously: “But why are we going to subdue the Demon Flame Dragon? Speaking of which, wasn't the Demon Flame Dragon subdued 5 months ago?”
“Ah, that's—”
“Ahem, it should be my turn to appear at this time.”
Mabel interrupted Zunzun's words, she coughed pretentiously and said: “This is a secret of the Ice Clan, an unknown history. That's right, it's about the story of the Ice Clan's ancestor and the Frozen God Sword—”
“Ah, there's no need for the story. We've already read books about the Ice Clan in the royal capital, and they're written in great detail.”
Reika took out a book from her arms.
It was the book sold in the royal capital by Mabel's mother, containing all the information about the Ice Clan.
“Mother… my mother who eloped with a young man when I was 9 years old…”
Mabel collapsed completely.
Over the years, the only thing she had been able to do well was to tell others about the story of the Frozen God Sword, but this only strength was also taken away by her mother who eloped with a young man when she was 9 years old.
Zunzun stroked Mabel's head, comforting the wounded descendant of the Ice Clan while explaining.
“As you know, the Demon Flame Dragon was subdued 5 months ago… no, to be precise, it was sealed. And my purpose is to release it and subdue it again.”
“Hmm? ? ?”
The three tilted their heads, even more confused.
Undoubtedly, they had no idea why Zunzun was going to so much trouble. So Zunzun told them about the Otherworld Transferees and the three shrines.
“What, Kuroki, you're an Otherworld Transferee!?”
“No wonder you're so strong!”
They weren't surprised about Isaki Yosuke being an Otherworld Transferee, no, they weren't surprised about that aspect.
After all, there were many Otherworld Transferees in this world, famous ones like the ancestor of the Ice Clan, and nameless ones like Shojiro who built the inn. In short, Otherworld Transferees weren't anything rare in this world.
“That's how it is.”
Zunzun explained: “I plan to destroy the three shrines, attract the power of the gods, and then combine it with the power of the Demon Flame Dragon, making them stronger by adding them together. Then, that's when we come in.”
“The strongest forces collide and merge, perhaps creating enough power to distort space, destroying space and using it as a stepping stone to return to our world.”
Isaki Yosuke said.
The elven beauty sighed: “I don't think this is a good way, but Zunzun keeps wanting to do it, I clearly tried to stop him…”
“This is an experiment.”
Zunzun knew that Isaki Yosuke would eventually return to his world not by relying on this method, but if he didn't try it, he wouldn't be satisfied, and this was the only way Zunzun could think of to go home.
“I'm very confident of success, of course, even if it doesn't succeed, there are other methods. But… conversely, perhaps simply increasing the Demon Flame Dragon's power is the easiest method.”
“Really?”
Reika and the others were frightened by Zunzun's reckless idea, actively cultivating the monster's power to defeat it, and repeating it until it succeeded, all for the sake of returning home.
Was there something wrong with Zunzun's brain?
“Hey, I feel like I'm being looked down upon.”
“—Sorry!” X3
“Never mind, I also think this method is very bold.”
You know that?
Apart from Isaki Yosuke, the elven beauty and the others were constantly complaining in their hearts, but they didn't show it on their faces.
“In short, now that we've found a method, we won't be satisfied if we don't try it, so this time it might be quite dangerous, but I guarantee that before I die, I won't let you get hurt. How about it, do you want to come along?”
Zunzun wasn't just asking Alicia and the three of them, he was also asking the elven beauty and Mabel's thoughts.
Having a move that was harder than anyone's life, he would use it on the Demon Flame Dragon once something irreversible was about to happen, which was why he said those words.
“What are you saying, I'm definitely going.”
The elven beauty spoke first.
Next was Isaki Yosuke, followed by Alicia and the three, and Mabel—
“I, I, I… I'm the wielder of the Frozen God Sword, a mere Demon Flame Dragon, absolutely… no, not…unworthy…!”
Despite saying that, she was still trembling with fear.
Was she really okay?